We continue to sacrifice our police departments to corruption, our Bill or rights to expediency, our sense of justice to our moral outrage. When will drugs simply be legalized?
New Mexico and Nebraska should be the model for every other state to follow on this matter.
We continue to sacrifice our police departments to corruption, our Bill or rights to expediency, our sense of justice to our moral outrage. When will drugs simply be legalized?
Good God!!
Sheriff Knottingham...!
If all as presented these “officers of the law” should be hung along the highways and left to rot.
Sounds like they were using the assets of these people as their own personal pawn shop.
That asset forfeiture is FANTASTIC!
Here are some pics of a '65 Chevy Nova. They show one in the article, but I don't think it's the actual one seized, but rather one from some "wiki" website.
Horrid. I try to stay away from Saginaw. Democrats.
“When police have a pecuniary interest in the property rights of others there will be overreaching on behalf of the police”
Cops- You don’t have to love ‘em.
The Chevy Nova is a classic muscle car?
My first car was the Pontiac-badged version. It had some nice V8 power, but I would not exactly call it a “muscle car”.
Charge the entire police department under RICO laws. See how they like being on the receiving end.
Civil forfeiture laws need to go.
Just as there should be no assessment of civil liability in ANY instance relating to a crime unless there is an actual conviction for that crime (which, incidentally, utterly eliminates being liable without being responsible).
Moreover, all civil liabilities not relating to the commission of a crime should be limited to monetary damages: no P&S or punitive damages should be permitted.
Cops drove a 1965 Nova 54,000 miles in a year?
Geez, that doesn't leave much time to stop for doughnuts...
Criminal theft with a badge and a gun, AND the blessing of the court.
These “laws” that allow this are nothing more than the government’s way of getting around the Constitution that explicitly forbids this.
The leftists hate private property, and use any excuse to seize it.
You only think you own something. The government thinks otherwise.
The search warrants were issued by Saginaw County judges, said Outside Legal Counsel, which is representing the Ostipows. But it’s unclear why the Saginaw County officers were in a neighboring county’s jurisdiction and didn’t get search warrants from Shiawassee County judges.
How the HELL is THAT legal? A judge in one county can issue a warrant against someone in another county, not served by law officers of the county but his own???
And who are the criminals?
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55,000 miles! Damn! I tell you, they PURPOSELY pick impound lots as far away as they can. ;-)
This sounds like Mexico
Whatever benefits good people hoped to derive from civil asset forfeiture laws, the abuses more than outweigh them. Those laws should all be repealed or at least predicated on a criminal conviction relevant to the asset to be seized.